56 February, 



the Eer. Canon Fowler, M.A.,F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. Ferdinand Q-rut, F.L.S. ; and 

 as other Members of the Council, Mr. J. W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes, F.L.S., Mr. F. DuCane Godman, M.A., F.E.S., Dr. P. B. Mason, F.L.S., 

 Prof. E. Meldola, F.E.S., Mr. R. South, Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.E.S., and Mr. 

 Eoland Trimen, F.E.S. Lord Walsingham nominated Mr. J. W. Dunning, Mr. 

 Elwes, and Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Vice-Presidents for the Session 1890 — 1891, and 

 he then delivered an Address. 



Mr. Stainton proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his services during 

 the year, and for his Address ; this was seconded by Prof. Meldola, and carried. A 

 vote of thanks to the other Officers of the Society was then proposed by Mr. Elwes, 

 seconded by Dr. Sharp, and carried. Lord Walsingham, Mr. Goss, Canon Fowler, 

 and Mr. Grut made some remarks in acknowledgment. — H. Goss, Hon. tSec. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE BEITISH ORTROPTERA. 



BY ELAND SHAW, F.E.S. 



{Continued from Vol. xxv, p. 455). 



ly.-LOCUSTID^. 



The European LocustidcB are divided into ten tribes or sub-families, 

 and these include thirty-nine genera and over two hundred species. 

 "We have but ten species in eight genera, yet these represent no less 

 than five out of the ten sub-families. Perhaps in time we may add a 

 few more species to the British list, but a great number of the 

 European species are found only in the extreme south. In the genus 

 JEphippigera, for example, out of 49 species (11 of them from North 

 Africa) only one occurs in Central Europe, and 21 are confined to 

 Spain. De Selys-Longchamps, in his " Catalogue Eaisonne des Orth. 

 et des Neur. de Belgique " (Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belg., xxxii, 1888) gives 

 13 species of Lociistidcs as occurring in Belgium, and of these we have 

 9 ; our one species which he does not mention as Belgian being Pha- 

 neroptera falcata, Scop., and our claim to this as British is questionable. 

 The four Belgian species which we do not possess are Barhitistes 

 serricauda, Eab., Gampsocleis glabra., Herbst, Platycleis hicolor, 

 Philippi, and Epliippigera vitium, Serv. 



The LocusfidcB, together with the Acridlida; and Gryllidce, form 

 the saltatorial division of Ortlwptera. They are distinguished from 

 the AcridiidcE by their long antennae, by the position of the stridulating 

 organ in the anal areas of the elytra of ^ , and by their long exserted 

 ovipositor ; and while possessing these characters in common with the 

 GryllidcB (except in Grgllotalpa, where the ovipositor is absent), they 

 may be readily separated from them by their 4-jointed tarsi, which in 

 the Gri/llidce are 2- or 3-jointcd. 



